2024年秋季学期 欧洲学期
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什么是欧洲学期?
欧洲学期 couples intensive study with first-hand experience of the places and people that have shaped European 历史 and cultures. 你会到处旅行, 读, 研究, 广泛地写作, 向来自欧洲各地的专家和普通人学习. Your courses will fulfill Common Inquiries requirements from Westmont's General Education program, 但你的学术经历将远远超过满足要求. 你会发现新的视角, 与具有挑战性的问题搏斗, 看到抽象的想法在现实生活中的体现, 同时也是一个小, 基督教学习型ag娱乐官网.
Students will be able to fulfill these general education requirements: Thinking Globally, 推理抽象, 阅读想象文学, 了解社会. 体育课程也将提供.
英国,荷兰和德国
课程
生物多样性丧失等广泛的环境挑战, 资源枯竭, and environmental change and degradation are among the most pressing global issues of our day. 他们有大量的科学, 社会, 而道德层面则需要一个成熟的, 通知, 以及来自不同学科角度的富有同情心的回应. 本课程介绍全球环境问题, 特别关注欧洲野生动物, 历史, 和政治. While encountering landscapes from Cambridge’s Fenlands to the greenbelt along the historical Iron Curtain, 从德国的黑森林到意大利的城市和农田, we will cultivate a deep understanding of individual and corporate connections to the natural world in all its diversity. We will develop an interdisciplinary knowledge base and set of skills to engage contemporary environmental issues from local to global scales, and situate stewardship of the earth in the context of Christian theology and 社会 and environmental 道德. 通用电气:放眼全球
Biblical apocalyptic literature was written in response to the oppression and persecution of the people of God. The vivid imagery and dramatic events offered 读ers a way to interpret their experience of the world, 他们可以在宣告上帝战胜邪恶中找到希望. The visions of biblical apocalyptic literature also have provided imagery and concepts for later writers, 在犹太教和基督教ag娱乐官网内外. Writers throughout 历史 and into our own day adopt and adapt biblical imagery in response to new crises in the world–including the climate crisis. 这节课,我们将探讨《ag娱乐官网》. We’ll seek out echoes of biblical apocalyptic imagery in medieval doom paintings, 有远见的诗歌, 现代小说. And we’ll think through the power and significance of the apocalypse as an interpretive framework for our own world. GE:阅读想象文学
哲学的早期现代时期(包括, 约, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) was a time of dramatic societal and intellectual change in Europe. The Reformation had fractured the unity of the continent under the Catholic church during the Middle Ages, and the ensuing conflicts between Catholics and Protestants set the stage for 辩论 about political authority, 宗教宽容, 以及宗教ag娱乐官网的理性基础. 在科学, 哥白尼在物理学上的新工作, 伽利略, 还有一些人挑战了我们在宇宙中所处位置的公认观点, while the revival of vivisection and the development of the microscope facilitated the investigation into the nature and function of living things. 尽管经院哲学, the Aristotelian-influenced tradition of philosophy that emerged in the later Middle Ages, 在这一时期的大部分时间里继续在大学中占据统治地位, methods and ideas circulating within the “republic of letters” would eventually lead to its decline. 一场被称为启蒙运动的文化运动, 哪一个强调了理性和证据的运用, 他经常对公认的传统和权威持高度批评态度, 将改变欧洲社会, 在这一时期末期的法国大革命中达到高潮. 在本课程中, 我们将探讨一系列哲学话题, 辩论, 以及早期现代哲学的文本, 包括形而上学(研究什么是真实的), 认识论(研究我们能知道什么以及我们如何知道它), 政治哲学, 道德, 和美学. 从地理上讲,我们的重点将放在英国的哲学家身上.g.,约翰·洛克和玛格丽特·卡文迪什),法国(e.g.,笛卡尔和Émilie du chtelet),荷兰(e.g.安娜·玛丽亚·冯·舒曼和巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎),德国(e.g.莱布尼茨和康德). GE:抽象推理
This course explores the societies of our host cultures on 欧洲韦斯特蒙, 其中包括英格兰, 荷兰, 德国, 斯洛伐克, 克罗地亚, 意大利, 和法国. It will foster understanding of European societies in both historical and contemporary contexts through study, 分析, 以及对政治的观察, 经济, 宗教, 社会, 文化模式和争议. Guest lectures will provide insights that help to explain historical and contemporary 社会 issues in each country. Students will be required to engage with host contexts with b读th and depth, 任务集中在紧迫的公众利益问题上. 考虑到整个节目的主题, we will particularly focus on the ways environmental issues–such climate change, 生物多样性丧失, 以及战争影响政治, 经济, 和日常生活. We will also reflect on the place of Christian community in these cultures, 无论是历史上还是现在, 以及它们在应对环境挑战中的作用. GE:了解社会
This course invites students to connect physical fitness with their understanding of the use and significance of space, 创造关怀的工作. For instance, how do the spaces and industry of cities contribute to environmental degradation? 我们是如何出行的——私家车吗, 出租车, 公共交通, 自行车, 考虑到气候危机,这是微不足道的? What’s different about exercise outside of cities, in forests or fens or mountains? And how can we cultivate awareness of other species as we travel from one place to another? GE: PE信用
教师董事
Dr. 斯帕克曼 graduated from Westmont in 2003 with degrees in both English and biology. 她在爱荷华州立大学读研究生, 2009年获得生态学和进化生物学博士学位. 接下来的两年, 她是安大略省特伦特大学的博士后研究员, 加拿大研究狼的社会行为进化. 她于2012年加入韦斯特蒙特学院, 教授生态学课程, 进化, 行为, 鸟类学, 爬虫学, 和生物伦理学. She is also the co-advisor of the Environmental Studies minor and co-teaches Westmont's introductory environmental studies course. Her current 研究 projects include the 进化 of dwarfism in reptiles on the California Channel Islands, the response of western terrestrial garter snakes to environmental change, 城市化对西部栅栏蜥蜴生理的影响, 行为, 和分布.
Dr. 里德得了B.A. 来自奥古斯塔纳学院,密歇根州.A. 在惠顿学院(Wheaton College)获得圣经研究硕士学位.菲尔。. 在旧约和博士.D. 来自剑桥大学的《新约. 她于2007年来到韦斯特蒙特. Her 研究 interests include the household, gender, and violence in the Bible and biblical worlds. 她最近的研究对象是女性, 孩子们, 以及路加福音中的战争, and the interpretation of the story of the Samaritan woman in the context of women's lives in the church. 她还教授性别研究课程. 她的新书, 撒玛利亚妇人的故事:在“教会也是”之后重新考虑约翰福音4章, 由InterVarsity出版社于2022年1月出版.
Dr. 齐尔斯特拉得了B.A. 来自加拿大曼尼托巴省普罗维登斯学院. 他在多伦多继续他的哲学研究生工作,获得硕士学位.A. 他是基督教研究所的博士.D. 来自多伦多大学. 他的主要研究领域是17th-和18th19世纪欧洲哲学, with a special focus on the Amsterdam-born Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). 他还对环境和动物伦理感兴趣. 自2012年以来,他一直在韦斯特蒙特学院教授哲学. 他最近的课程包括哲学观点, 现代哲学, 环境伦理学, 和中世纪哲学. He also regularly co-teaches the biology department’s Seminar in Bio道德 with Dr. 斯帕克曼.
成本
威斯蒙特学期学费、食宿费、项目费各为
3000美元,再加上往返机票.
Students are allowed to apply their financial aid awards from the college—both need-based and merit-based awards—toward the program’s cost.
资格
学院领导会考虑以下所有因素:
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- GPA(最低2分).3 GPA才有资格),而且没有学生生活处罚
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标准
- Participate in occasional communal meals based on local diet with limited control over food choices.
- Navigate multiple irregular surfaces and walk/travel an average of 3-5 miles a day independently and up to 10 miles a day on monthly field trips.
- Anticipate having sufficient emotional wellness to fully participate in the program safely and successfully despite the limited availability of frequent access to psychological services.
- 预计至少有两个人的住宿.
如何申请
单击本页顶部的应用按钮! 申请截止日期为2023年11月15日.